Nicolet

Nicolet, Quebec is the county seat of Nicolet-Yamaska Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada. The populace as of the Canada was 7,828. It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nicolet. The occupants of the town articulate the last "t" in Nicolet, anyway individuals outside of the locale don't. The town took its name from Jean Nicolet, a French wayfarer and assistant of the Company of One Hundred Associates, who investigated the Great Lakes area west to Wisconsin.

Regardless of never having lived there, he investigated the zone amid the seven years he lived in Trois-Rivières. The zone was initially settled by the Abenaki clan, who knew it as Pithigan or Pithiganek, signifying "entrance". French provincial settlement of Nicolet territory started in the late seventeenth century, with Pierre Monet de Moras building a seigneurial house on what is presently known as Moras Island.

Rights to the domain of Nicolet was agreed in 1672 by Jean Talon, going through a few turns in the following thirty years. Critical land advancement started at the opening of the eighteenth century, with the development of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Jesuit mission in 1701, a house of prayer in 1710, a presbytery in 1722, and a second church being brought up in 1740.